Elisabeth LaMotte
“Do any human beings every realize life while they live it?” I saw Thornton Wilder’s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town at some point during my childhood and remembered it vaguely. Mostly I remembered that the plot followed two young people in a small town falling in love and that the boy loved baseball.…
Read MoreHappy New Year! Setting healthier boundaries is a common new year’s resolution so I thought I would share this clip from a conversation I had with Good Day DC host Jacqueline Matter. This particular suggested script focuses on the holidays and spending time together as a family, but it can be tweaked to a variety…
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Therapists, especially relationally-oriented therapists, often attempt to help clients in therapy to improve their relationship choices. The pattern of fear of commitment is a widely acknowledged phenomenon in popular culture. Most of us understand fear of commitment as a conscious hesitation to take a healthy relationship to a higher level of commitment. But sometimes conflicts…
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Spencer Northey spoke with HuffPost about whether the popular approach of gentle parenting can also be an effect relational strategy in the romantic realm. Gentle parenting is a soft spoken supportive parenting strategy that many parents find enhances their connection with their children and improves listening skills for the family. Several experts made salient points…
Read More If only we therapists could concoct a reliable strategy to help our clients prevent affairs. If only we could convincingly illuminate the heartbreak and damage and devastation in advance to help motivate adults who find themselves deep in the throes of an intense crush to carve out a different path. The trouble typically is that…
Read More As a therapist who works with folks from a variety of backgrounds and political perspectives, this is an important question that comes up quite a bit, especially as we head into the Thanksgiving Holiday. It was rewarding to speak with Axios reporter Maya Goldman about how important it is to not allow politics to drive…
Read More I’ve admired social worker Terry Real for many years. He held an impromptu virtual meeting in mid-March 2020 and invited any practicing therapist to attend. He shared that he has been working virtually for quite a while and expressed his belief that experienced clinicians could indeed pivot from their in-person sessions in order to continue…
Read More Early adulthood is a rich psychological time when personalities develop more deeply, and individuals begin to cultivate what systems therapists describe as a more grounded sense of self. Early adulthood marks a wonderful but often fraught stage of life full of pondering, pain and possibility. Illinoise, a stunning musical directed and choreographed by Justin Peck,…
Read More For years now, there has been a dramatic shortage of therapists in the field. Waiting lists at agencies are far too long, and folks in emotional pain need to wait, sometimes for weeks or even months, to receive necessary care. What an inspiration it was to speak with Dr. Brooke Stroud, Dan Duane and Karey…
Read More A friend recently introduced me to Bandle – an app that invites users to play name that tune with a twist. The app introduces only one component of the song at a time. With each failed guess, the app splices in one more instrument at a time. I’m a wiz with name that tune; unfortunately,…
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